• jimmyjoners@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    All the strikes these days honestly just make me happy. Love seeing workers standing up for themselves.

    I mean it does suck they need to strike at all…

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      11 months ago

      If business owners weren’t parasites in the first place, and actually paid employees a thriving wage and treated them respectfully… there would be no need for unions in the first place, much less strikes.

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        11 months ago

        And if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike

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          11 months ago

          And therefore the rich have no responsibility to their workers …

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            11 months ago

            To clarify I was saying that business owners are parasites by their nature and unions will always be necessary as long as businesses are set up the way they are with all the existing incentives

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    11 months ago

    Strikes and lockouts are powerful weapons that a disgruntled employer or employee have when contract negotiations go south.

    It’s clear that as much as an employer wants to remove labour from their profit equation, they are still going to need it no matter what their business is with few exceptions.

    I hope these actions are going to bring about a new generation of union leaders that aren’t just there to maintain status quo, but fight for better working conditions like we had fought for before.